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A wrist watch is a timepiece that you wear on your wrist. A strap or bracelet is used to attach the watch to your wrist. In addition to time, modern watches often display the day, date, month and year, and digital watches may have many other functions such as air pressure, tachymetre, world time, stop watch etc....
Most cheap and medium-priced watches that the average person uses to tell the time are electronic watches with quartz movements. Dearer more expensive, collectible watches, to ones that are handmade and so valued more for their workmanship and aesthetic appeal other than for simple timekeeping, have mechanical movements which are powered by springs, even though mechanical movements are less accurate than more affordable quartz movements.
Before the advances in modern manufacturing techniques that allowed the inexpensive miniaturization of the watches parts, most watches were pocket watches which had covers and were carried in a pocket and attached to a watch chain or watch fob. The watch parts were just too big to allow the watch piece to fit realistically on your wrist.
